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Travels in the interior of North America
Uniform Title
Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834. English
Title
Travels in the interior of North America / by Maximilian, Prince of Wied ; with numerous engravings on wood, and a large map ; translated from the German, by H. Evans Lloyd ; to accompany the original series of eighty-one elaborately-coloured plates ...
Publication
London : Ackermann and Co., 96, Strand, MDCCCXLIII-MDCCCXLIV [1843-1844]
Manufacture
London : Cook and Co., printers, 76, Fleet Street
Physical Description
2 volumes (x, [2], 520 pages, [1] leaf of plates; [2], XXXIII, 48 leaves) : illustrations, portraits, map ; 33-63 cm
Local Notes
BEIN ZZc20 839wig copy 1: Atlas disbound.
BEIN ZZc20 839wig copy 2: Imperfect: atlas wanting. On t.p., printed line, "and a large map", has been erased and the words written in ms. Stamp: Lenox Library, New York, duplicate.
BEIN ZZc20 839wig copy 3: Imperfect: text wanting.
BAC Folio B 2023 5: The Abbey copy. Plates are hand-colored. Bound in maroon morocco. Armorial bookplate of the Earl of Derby.
Notes
Volume two comprises a lithographed title leaf and lithographed list of illustrations, followed by 81 intaglio illustrations: 33 smaller images numbered Vig. I-XXXIII and 48 larger images numbered Tab. 1-48. The illustrations have titles in English, German and French, and imprints Coblenz bei J. Hölscher, London published by Ackermann & Co. 96 Strand, ... 1839 [-1843], Paris, Arthus Bertrand, editeur. Some have a blind stamp "C. Bodmer Direct." below each plate. The plate inscriptions vary, sometimes being omitted or differently arranged. Plates occur in five states. See: Wagner.
Folded map bound at the end of volume 1 has title "Map to illustrate the route of Prince Maximilian of Wied, in the interior of North America. From Boston to the upper Missouri &a. in 1832, 33 & 34."
Includes Appendix: p. [507]-520.
The appendix on Native American languages and some matters of detail, present in the original German edition, are omitted in translation.
Variant and related titles
Title, volume 2: Illustrations to Maximilian Prince of Wied's Travels in the interior of North America
Map to illustrate the route of Prince Maximilian of Wied.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
References
Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 615
Wagner, H.R. Plains & the Rockies (4th ed.), 76.3
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 47017
Howes, W. U.S.iana, 1650-1950 (1962 edition) M443a
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Aquatints.
Wood engravings.
Hand-coloring.
Travel literature.
Also listed under
Ackermann and Co., publisher.
Cook and Co. (London), printer.
BAC Folio B 2023 5 Exhibited in: Wilde Americk: Discovery and Exploration of the New World, 1500-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, September 27, 2001-December 30, 2001)
Great Britain England London.
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